Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it’s not official yet
Washington DC, USReuters Russia’s new space chief announced on Tuesday his country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but senior NASA officials said Moscow has not formally conveyed an intent to end its two-decade-old orbital partnership with the United States. While heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia’s invasion of […]
Russia tests nuclear-capable missile that Putin calls best in world
London, UKReuters In a show of strength two months into its assault on Ukraine, Russia test-launched a new nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile which President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday would make Moscow’s enemies stop and think. Putin was shown on TV being told by the military that the long-awaited Sarmat missile had been test-launched for […]
International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module – NASA
Reuters The International Space Station was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said. The seven crew members aboard – two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and […]
StrangeSights: Film in space; Guernica commemorated (in chocolate); and, a world record light show
DAVID ADAMS writes about the odder side of life…
KNOW IT ALL: THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
DAVID ADAMS takes a look at some of the facts and figures behind the International Space Station (ISS)…